Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Glendale, AZ: Victims of Luke AFB Murder-Suicide Identified

Updated: Tuesday, 20 Sep 2011, 3:16 PM MST
Published : Tuesday, 20 Sep 2011, 3:16 PM MST

GLENDALE - Glendale Police are releasing the identities of a man and woman, found stabbed to death inside the mail room on Luke Air Force Base over the weekend.

They are 62-year-old Gaudioso Gamilla and his wife, 61-year-old Vilma Gamilla, both of Goodyear, Arizona.

Worried family members called base security on Sunday after not being able to reach the couple.

Their bodies were found about 7 p.m. on Sunday. Authorities at Luke Air Force Base told FOX 10 their stabbing deaths were a murder-suicide, but it's not clear who is the victim and who is the suspect.

"From what I've been told, there's a small office in the back, one victim was sitting in a chair, and the other was lying on the floor, at the feet of the other victim," says Major Jerry Mulhollen. Security video show the two entering the mail center alone.

Gaudioso Gamilla is retired Navy, and worked at the Luke AFB mail center as a contract employee.

The motive is unknown and the investigation is ongoing.

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